A rivetting documentary about a proud people

BY WAYNE COLES-JANESS

  BOUGAINVILLE OUR ISLAND, OUR FIGHT is a powerful film about an indigenous people taking up arms for independence to protect their culture and stop the ecological devastation of their lands.

This multi award winning documentary is about one of the last wars for independence.

It smuggles us across borders into the world of the besieged people of Bougainville.

During the civil war, cut off from all humanitarian aid and invisible to the western media, their only resource was their resolve to fight for independence in an attempt to preserve their culture and environment.

This is the only documentary of the longest war in the South Pacific. A war that resulted in the deaths of 20, 000 people who live just two hours from Australia.

You can find out more here - http://itunes.apple.com/au/movie/bougainville-our-island-our/id397699853

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